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It was an exciting night [the weekend of March 3] at the newly-renovated NorShor Theatre in downtown Duluth. The marquee was up, the curtains drawn, and a buzz of “oooo’s” and “ahhhh’s” filled the revitalized, art-deco space. “My grandmother used to go to dime movies here on Saturdays,” said one woman to her group of friends huddled …

With less than a month until opening night, paintbrushes and canisters full of yellow paint were strewn on paint-speckled paper taped to the floor in the NorShor Theatre’s offices Sunday. The final touches of the renovated downtown Duluth theater, which first opened as the Orpheum Theater in 1910, are starting to come together. The electricity …

If you haven’t recently, you’ll want to take a drive down Superior Street past the NorShor Theatre, and soon! Just over a month out from the premiere performance on its restored stage, the marquee is also seeing its new life come to light (no pun intended) as the light-up “NorShor” letters are placed in their …

After years of planning and 16 months of construction, the renovation of Duluth’s historic NorShor Theatre is finally nearing completion. It has been a challenging project by all accounts. “There was an extraordinary amount of reconstruction work that was unforeseen, and we definitely hit Duluth rock, so we had to manage that,” said Rich Kiemen, …